Introduction - The Nabataeans in focus (Laila Nehme & Lucy Wadeson); 1) Landscapes north of Petra: the Petra Area and Wadi Silaysil Survey (Brown University Petra Archaeological Project, 2010-2011) (Susan E. Alcock & Alex R. Knodell); 2) Nabataean or Late Roman? Reconsidering the date of the built sections and milestones along the Petra-Gaza road (Chaim Ben David); 3) Reinventing the sacred: from shrine to monastery at Jabal Harun (Zbigniew T. Fiema, ); 4) Dating the early phases under the temenos of the Qa r al-Bint at Petra (F. Renel, M. Mouton, C. Auge, C. Gauthier, C. Hatte, J-F. Saliege & A. Zazzo); 5) A Nabataean shrine to Isis in Wadi Abu Ullayqah, in the south-west of Petra (Marie-Jeanne Roche); 6) The palaces of the Nabataean kings at Petra (Stephan G. Schmid, Piotr Bienkowski, Zbigniew T. Fiema & Bernhard Kolb); 7) The funerary landscape of Petra: results from a new study (Lucy Wadeson); 8) The International Aslah Project, Petra: new research and new questions (Robert Wenning in cooperation with Laurent Gorgerat).